Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-03-13

any srievsBce sDsEnR % snd On being |
assec wbeFe bis address wsa. be aasGrsd I
them tbst auv letter Eeut % Lord |
shstesb1ry. 81 GroszsnsE S4asre, Nth
kniRbt Of tie Garter ard C0sfeFmouaeF
after kis ZANE would ressh q. o.
another occasion. on the pl2tfoFn 81
EzstsE HsIi, be vas
PEEskxTxD VIII A DosKKT
By bis admiriDz frisnas. the cosseF-
monRsFs. TIE Earl having vsexted toe
chair 10 the dot keys favor. - Feposse5
20 have returned taanks for it 10
speech u exeeedirg Sashoa, eonelsd-
ing With, ~When / have passed aEsJ
from this life desire 10 have % better
said Of ne than that | have done ny
dafy. like this poor aonkey.
Intensely religious hinsfh, y -
strange thst the only lasting friend tie
Rzri had ia his life vas bis s0msvhai
easy going and worldly father ia law,
/ Lord PAlmerstou. He alacrs 20 him
snse ~ ''tbe grand pillar TO whieh al
vessels % the state we're hzksd sad -
she feet VS. held 20 iis m0oEi1Rs.
He bsmoaHs his death IS the one n8n
zhs loved hin beyond every other man
living. o. ons occasion the sabisct Of
this memoir vas challenged g. nEot
duel By bis brother peer Lord AofGisR
ton Il IL needless 70 say that The iBFi-
tasion vas deeiiusd. The wOEid had too
much use for the Earl ever 20 let him be
sh0t dead like = dog. Every virtue the
great msn seems 10 have had, except
liberation. spd
TIE ACEKBTTT on BIS JUDGMENTS
Passed on these Who did not agree wfth
him land they Wers almost everybody
uonld be lsaehabls, II they were not 50
unjust. Mr.. Gladstone be invariably
distrusied, bis father IN law sharing the
ssatiment With bin. He Describes the
former and D'isfseli a. two tigers
aahtinR over a carcass, each trying %
drive the other away from the tIt-bits.
Ia another place be describes Gladstone
~ governed By the greed Of place and
salary and power" and Lord Beasons
/ Geld b. labels as "a isper, without re-
gard 90 anything human or divine, be
yond us own ambition, which will drag
everything good, safe, venerasle and
solid through the dast and dirt to graf
| ify it, o. iscts." On the occasion Of
Lord John Rassell's elevation TO the
peerage. the Earl pathetioally asks shy
/ DIS chamber should be made London
reformatory for convicted oriminalsf
and complains that so furnished nan
should be 10 50 brilliant e Situation"
Spea king Of Rassell 10 connection With
Sir Robert Pesl. be says, 4 hsve thought
Tor some years that Peel and John Rua
sell are the nest criminal OF mankind.
HsweyeF, q few years later when the
great cOmmOneF was thrown from bis
horse and killed, LsFd ShAfiesbury re-
gretfully speaks % him as one OF toe
greatest men of his generation" II u
laughable TO read Of ths British Solo
mon. James /, being labelled as that
dsspioabIe reptile Of ihe human race"
As TO HIS RELIGIOUS VIEWS,
Lord Shaftesbury describes himself a
IAN evangelical OF the svsnRelicsls.'
Consequently. the doings Of the ritual
lists we're most odious to him. Indeed
his religious hatTeds, II We may use the
term, we're more bitter than bis political
ones. The Puseyites be denominstes ~
SONS u Babylon" and refers to the
high church services IN London as "the
worship of Jupiter and Jun0." The
! famous book "E'ce II lm0" was de
nouncsd by the simple Earl as the most
residential ever v0mlted from tbs jaws
OF hell" Lord Shafiesbury's religious
views we're unpopular and gloomy and
shiie they undoubtedly afforded hin
strength be derived little comfort OF
satisfaction from them.
WRITING IN IHE LAST YEAR or HIS LIFE
He thus describes himself: IL am like
an old tree in forest. half submerged
BY mighty f,od. I remain where |
was, while everything il passing beyond
me. New ideas. new thoughts aud ne "
feelings are H0wiDg rapidly by; cannot
go alORg with the stream aud must be
left alone stranded and leafless, a ven
cradle proof Of consistency, as some
wOald say, but u bigotry IN the estima-
ten OF Others"
However, II ia time 10 conclude an
already too protFaoted notice OF a life
wsich WAS spent wholly in the service OF
the poor. and II bis character was
mArred by few faults, they have NJ
more 10 do with the warmth and yiRor
Of his charity 'than the spots on the
sun face have "a do with the hoOd OF
light and beat wharewith Il quiokeus
the turning earth" Llri SheftesbBry
WIS that philanthgopist wso, when the
ear heard him u blessed rim and when
the eye saw him it gave witness 20 him,
becsGse be delivered the poor that cried.
and she fAthetle=s and him that had
none to hslp him.
a. very perfect, gentle knight"
In fields whence Chivilry bad fed
He lived 10 hnnor's ciearest light;
He lies with EuRlaud's noblsst dead.
Fiouted and thrust aside, hts life
Saamed those who passed him in the
strife. CLIo.